Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Prusselstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Prusselstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00296, -6.97350
- SMR number
- KD035-017002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SW-facing pasture slope. Visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP ASU 74 (1967)) as the cropmarks of a roughly rectangular field system (est. c. 100m NW-SE; c. 70m NE-SW), together with the cropmark of an adjacent enclosure (KD035-017001-) to the NW: possibly a levelled rath and associated field system. The cropmark of a possible rectangular enclosure (KD035-017003-) in the next field to the SW, is also visible. No visible surface trace survives. The cropmark of a possible rectangular enclosure (KD035-017003-) in the next field to the SW, is also visible on this aerial photo.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 28 November 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.